Senior Performance Technical Artist

Elsewhere Entertainment is developing a new IP and is part of Activision, a leading worldwide developer, publisher, and distributor of interactive entertainment and products, known for franchises such as Call of Duty®, Crash Bandicoot™, Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™, and Guitar Hero™.

• Demonstrated professional experience in the games industry as a Technical Artist or in a closely related role.
• Deep understanding of real-time shaders and materials, with the ability to analyze and optimize their performance impact on GPU cost, memory usage, and visual fidelity.
• Strong experience optimizing game assets and content pipelines for performance and memory efficiency.
• Familiarity with DCC tools such as Maya, Substance, and Blender, and understanding of how authoring decisions affect runtime cost.
• Strong understanding of game engines, rendering pipelines, and asset processing workflows.
• Proactive, analytical mindset with the ability to balance visual quality, performance constraints, and production realities.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience shipping AAA titles.
• Strong understanding of memory management, streaming systems, and performance profiling from a content perspective.
• Experience creating, optimizing, and debugging shaders and materials.
• Experience working with console tooling and performance constraints.
• Experience working with C++ or other high-level languages in support of performance tooling or engine integration.

• Drive performance ownership from a content creation perspective, ensuring assets meet runtime budgets for memory, CPU, GPU, and streaming.
• Analyze and optimize art assets, shaders, materials, rigs, and animations to reduce runtime cost while preserving visual intent.
• Design and maintain tools and validation workflows that surface performance issues early in the asset pipeline.
• Establish and document performance guidelines for artists, including asset complexity, LOD strategies, texture usage, material setups, and animation costs.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to profile, diagnose, and resolve performance bottlenecks tied to content and workflows.
• Anticipate performance risks related to content scale, reuse, and density, and implement preventative solutions.
• Support cross-discipline communication by translating engine-level performance constraints into actionable guidance for content teams.

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